The Warriors were close to pulling the trigger on a deal seven times Thursday night, and three of those scenarios involved trading up from their second first-round pick at No. 30 to get Vanderbilt center Festus Ezeli.

"We talked about it, and we decided to sweat it out," general manager Bob Myerssaid.

Luckily, the 6-foot-11, 255-pound shot-blocker from Vanderbilt was still there for Golden State at No. 30.

"We view this draft as an A, but if we hadn't got Festus, then we might have viewed it as just a B," Myers said.

The Nigerian native moved to the United States - specifically, near Sacramento - in 2004.

Excited, Ezeli was asked?

"I will run through a wall," he said.

Ezeli averaged 10.1 points and 5.9 rebounds per game his senior year, while setting the school record with 204 career blocks. The Warriors said they wanted to address the team's toughness, and Ezeli said, "I will be the tough guy if they need me to be."

Myers was asked if he expected Ezeli to push Andris Biedrins and Jeremy Tyler for the backup center job, and Myers said, "Festus is a hungry player; I hope he's going to push Andrew Bogut."

Another tough guy: Second-round pick Draymond Green out of Michigan State handled falling out of the first round and into the Warriors clutches at No. 35 pretty well.

"I am not the first guy to slide out of the 20s into the 30s, and I am not going to be the last," he said.

A 6-foot-7, 230-pound small forward, who does all of the small things well, will bang and fit in anyway he can. The Big Ten Player of the Year and first-team All-American finished with the most rebounds (1,096) and second-most blocks (117) in school history.

"Harrison Barnes is going to have the upper hand and that's fine," he said. "I just want to help the team any way I can."

Don't get too comfy: The teams' fourth pick, Bosnian center Ognjen Kuzmic, was awestruck when he visited the team's facilities, but he may not be moving to the United States anytime soon. Myers had said the team would likely develop a player in Europe if it kept all four of its picks.

The 22-year-old Kuzmic has played for Clinicas Rincon in Spain's second-tier league for only one year, and the Warriors might leave him there for seasoning.